Yea, I've officially had enough of this series. It's boring, and I discovered in this novel that I really don't think Macomber can write more than one character. As in, none of her characters are inherently different from any other in the way they speak. They are only different in her descriptions of them. I say this mostly because she has a nine year old and a sixteen year old speaking the way adults to, with mature language. Not that kids can't talk that way, but it was so unrealistic! And I was once again upset with the storyline of one of the characters - this time Collette. I don't believe that two people can fall in love from 2 encounters together. If she wanted it to be believable, she needed to have them interacting more. It was ridiculous. I'm done.

But I still like knitting!

For all of the build up, I wasn't impressed. I liked jumping between characters at first, but then I realized about halfway through that I never really got to know any of the narrators truly personally. I never connected with any of them.
Then, when I finally found the actual plot (about 2/3 of the way through), there were so many twists and turns in the story that I just got uninterested. I have heard that the other books in the series are much better, so I'll keep reading, but I was pretty disappointed with this one. I think the story has a LOT of potential, and I like how original it is compared with other vampire YA, but this book left me with too many questions. Questions that the characters wouldn't ask anyone, which infuriated me.

The following contains SPOILERS:

Here are a few specific questions I have, maybe they will eventually be answered, but I feel that they should already have been:
- If there are just 400 of them, why aren't the adults freaking out more over them being killed. And if it happened in Plymouth/Roanoke too, then there aren't 400 anymore, are there? There's fewer? Never acknowledged.
- If they are continually regenerated in new bodies, why do the adults treat the teens like children? Weren't they all older or younger than one another at some point? So they should be equals? Especially with CVA dying, now is she going to be reborn and be way younger than Schuyler?
- Why isn't their ENTIRE history given to them when they go to their first Committee meeting? It seems pretty important for them all to know, and yet Schuyler was continually learning stuff about herself throughout the end of the book.
- Why is Jack so attracted to Schuyler/Schuyler's mom when he is "blood bound" to Mimi?
- Why do the characters believe EVERY WORD ANYONE EVER SAYS TO THEM? I was shocked when they saw Charles Force's face on the demon thing and then when he was like, "nope, wasn't me." They were all, "oh, ok then, it must have been Dylan the whole time."
- ......yes, those are the main questions, although I have many more.

I started in Italian (for my Survey of Italian Lit and Culture class), but I just don‰ЫЄt have the time I wish I did to really study the text and understand everything, so I ended up just buying it in English, so then I was able to bang it out in a couple of days. SO. INTERESTING! I TOTALLY knew who was guilty the whole time, and I knew what would happen, and it did, but that didn‰ЫЄt make it uninteresting. It‰ЫЄs definitely a tragedy, but I wouldn‰ЫЄt expect anything less from a Sicilian author from the 1960‰ЫЄs. I can‰ЫЄt really say much else about this book without spoilers, but I did enjoy it.

THE ENDING. Correction, THE LAST 2 PAGES. Oh my gosh. Love.
This is another one of those books that I spent the entire thing hating everything that was happening, while alternatively not being able to put it down and stop reading. The characters were fantastically written, the POVs were spot on, and every time I would really get into a specific story Martin would of course change to a new character.
I do feel that the majority of the book happening in the last quarter which is unfortunate, but it still made an excellent (albeit exhausting) read. I am excited for book 2, but it may need to wait until the end of the semester.

I actually give this one a 3.5 because I liked it MUCH better than the first. She filled in a lot of missing details from book one, but still left me at times wondering why there seemed to be no actual plot. It's almost as if she wrote one huge Blue Bloods book and just chopped it into pieces to publish over a long period of time.
I really don't have much else to say.

I read this book pretty quick because it really intrigued me. I like Fitzpatrick's writing style because while it's not the best, I think it's how I would write if I were an author. What disappointed me was that I felt as though the middle section really dragged - I kept expecting to get to the angel storyline soon, but it really didn't happen until right at the end. I am much more excited about the sequels because I can actually get into the paranormal-ish stuff right from the get-go.

These books are still improving, but there are moments where I just want to look at the author and say, huh? Why would you bring up crucial plot points 3/4 into the book without even mentioning them previously?? But I have to say I am a bit addicted to these now. I can look past the mediocre writing (in my personal opinion, I'm sure others disagree) because I do want to know what happens next.

I read this for Italian Lit and Culture (my last class to get my Italian minor!). It was the best book we had to read all semester. Lakhous wrote with such passion and sadness from Amedeo's POV, and all the other characters made me both laugh and cringe. I think Clash of Civilizations should cause us to think of America as well, because racism isn't limited to Piazza Vittorio in Rome, and sometimes it isn't so cut and dry. I'm very impressed with the depth of this book while told from so many characters.

I wasn't hugely impressed with this book. It was cute, and I liked what she did with the story, but there were things that got to me. I was very bored through the first half, and when it started to pick up, I wasn't convinced by the changes the characters were going through.
I know that I would have liked it much more if I were closer to 13 or 14 years old, but it was too cut and dry, and the ending too gift-wrapped for my taste. I would recommend for middle school to junior high girls.

Finally. A good (relative term) book in this series. I really enjoyed this book, and felt that de la Cruz finally was able to write a really gripping story while smoothly transitioning between characters and NOT leaving about important details to the plot. I am still confused about why she is revealing such important information to the basic storyline of Schuyler's life in the 4TH BOOK of the series, but at least I finally have answers to some of the questions I've been asking from the beginning. I think de la Cruz is starting to hit her stride in this series and I'm actually looking forward to the next book.